As a ballerina from ages 3 to 15, my dream was to dance the part of Odette in “Swan Lake”—perhaps the most coveted character in all of ballet. Although I never publicly performed in “Swan Lake,” my ballet company taught us its choreography, and I will never forget the summer morning we learned the “danse des petits cygnets” (Dance of …
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By the time this is published the average gas price in Texas will have likely set a new record high. At the time of writing, it was just seven cents off the old record and had risen 60 cents from the previous week. President Joe Biden is looking for every excuse to ignore the powers he has but refuses to use to help bring …
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George Orwell now seems downright clairvoyant. The messaging from the White House surrounding inflation has been emblematic of the ironically named Ministry of Truth in the dystopian novel 1984, first published in 1949. It is worth reviewing the fluid narrative of the last 13 months before all the doublethink gets memory-holed. In early 2021, the nation was told that there was …
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The Idaho state legislature is considering a controversial — but critical — good-government bill to protect America’s energy industry and safeguard tax dollars from being abused for political gain. Hundreds of the world’s largest financiers, collectively controlling over 60% of global wealth, have created a cartel, colluding to discriminate against industries they deem politically incorrect and advance the climate alarmist narrative. Their …
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America determined decades ago that unionizing the military was a terrible idea. Yet last month, the Biden administration’s Justice Department signaled in a court filing that National Guard troops on state active duty can organize as if they’re civilian first responders or civil servants, and members of the National Guard in Texas are now using the DOJ’s position as justification …
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We think about poverty all wrong. And because we think about poverty all wrong, much of our approach to alleviating it is wrong. Thus, poverty stubbornly persists and the trillions of dollars we spend barely nudges the needle to long-term poverty relief. The problem is the disconnect between what poverty really is and what our public policies are trying to solve. A clear understanding of poverty is offered …
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A press release on the federal Health and Human Services (HHS) website boasts that Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace enrollment reached historic highs under the Biden administration. That is correct—14.5 million Americans signed up for government-sponsored healthcare. But such a hasty celebration—either deliberately or obliviously—overlooks the original goals that democratic lawmakers had in mind for ACA Marketplace popularity. To say the embarrassing …
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United States’ decade-long homeless policy, a policy advocates continue to pursue at the peril of every American, is a colossal failure, according to a recently released white paper by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Human beings are perishing on our streets in skyrocketing numbers. Yet policymakers continue to squander those lives, and taxpayer funds, by doubling and even tripling down on …
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A California lawmaker has pulled down his own bill that would have created a single-payer healthcare system in the Golden State—even before a vote was scheduled. Even with the Democrats’ supermajority in the California capitol, he couldn’t round up the votes. According to the Sacramento Bee, the bill by San Jose Assemblyman Ash Kalra “threatened the existence of private insurance companies and would …
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This year’s Winter Olympics, usually a time of international cooperation and friendly competition, was tainted by tensions unfolding between communist China and the Western world. The ambiance was eerily reminiscent of the Cold War, with diplomatic boycotts, questionable disqualifications, and now anti-China legislation flying. Recognizing the growing threat of dependence on China for everything from medicines to funding our budget …
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